"heat haze" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: heat hazes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} heat haze (plural heat hazes)
  1. A shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed. Categories (topical): Weather Translations (a shimmering atmospheric disturbance): lõõsk (Estonian), rõke (Estonian), kuumavine (Estonian), vina (Estonian), Hitzeflimmern [neuter] (German), ceo bruithne [masculine] (Irish), 陽炎 (alt: かげろう, kagerō, ようえん, yōen) (Japanese)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "a shimmering atmospheric disturbance",
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